1. 十字路口
A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.

2. (发展的)关键时刻，紧要关头
If you say that something is at a crossroads, you mean that it has reached a very important stage in its development where it could go one way or another.

3. 核心地区;汇集地
A crossroads is an important or central place.

1. a point where a choice must be made

e.g. Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology

2. a community of people smaller than a village

Synonym: hamlet

3. a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made

e.g. at that juncture he had no idea what to do
he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point

Synonym: juncturecritical point